Henry Dyer : : pioneer of engineering education in Japan / / Nobuhiro Miyoshi ; translated by Takuji and Aiko Sarada.

Ignored in Britain and forgotten for generations in Japan, Henry Dyer (1848-1918), engineer, educationalist and author of two major works on Japan as well as dozens of papers and pamphlets and other works, has been the subject of ongoing research by Nobuhiro Miyoshi (Hiroshima University) for over t...

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Place / Publishing House:Folkestone, Kent : : Global Oriental,, [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Global Oriental monograph series (Japan) ; Volume 2
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements to the English Edition
  • Acknowledgements to the Original Japanese Edition
  • Prologue to the Original Study
  • List of Plates
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Scene is Set for the 'Britain of the East'
  • 2 Dyer's Educational Experiment in Japan
  • 3 The 'Boomerang Phenomenon' of Educational Experimentation
  • 4 Dyer's Studies on Japan: A Model of National Evolution
  • 5 Epilogue to the Original Study
  • 6 Dyer Revisited: Japan in the Twenty-first Century - On Her Way to Globalization
  • 7 Retrospective
  • Afterword
  • Sources of Photographs and Illustrations
  • Dyer's Writings
  • Dyer's Articles of Agreement
  • Index.